Posts Tagged: "bluetooth 4.0"

If your goal in life is to become the next Shawn White of snowboarding, then you probably have to work really hard on your skills. To help you figure out what you could improve on and what you’re doing wrong while up on the mountain comes the XON Snow-1 Bindings and...

We’re all aware of the saying, “You are what you eat, right.” But that doesn’t just apply to just food; we often overlook at what we drink. While they’re all sorts of devices out there tracking what you eat, the Vessyl Bottle does something different – it tracks what you...

I often think early adopters and techies touched by the allure of “new shiny” get caught up in just that — the allure. Where tablets are concerned, the needs of techie first-responders are often unclear or unobtainable. Thankfully the selection of tablets on the market is beyond bountiful hitting all...

The traditional home key and lock system isn’t going any where, at least not any time soon. But now, thanks to crowd funding campaigns on Kickstarter and Indiegogo, the once simple concept is being eschewed. And the result is something called the smart lock. Most smart locks function like a...

It’s being touted as THE best phablet on the market. The Samsung Galaxy Note 3 has hit store shelves. Bending the knee to one of the major subscription barons will earn you a seat at the owner’s circle. The choice is yours from AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile, Sprint and others. The...

Although I joke about the motives of mad scientists at the helm of the rugged and revolutionary Research and Development departments for our most beloved tech companies, I have to go on record. I really like the idea of a “SmartWatch”. Protective cases for Smartphones are rarely appealing and do...

Last year I reviewed Nike’s Fuelband. Despite my admiration for its badass design, I couldn’t give it an overwhelmingly positive score since it was, for the most part, inaccurate when it came to counting steps. That said, everything else, aside from the slight marring I experienced against its rubber facade,...

[GR]1PaA_KaxKdA[/GR] Order stuff online enough and you’ll end up with a package that contains broken goods. You really don’t have to look further than your local UPS or FedEx man to assign responsiblity, especially when they negligently toss packages over security doors or drop them into the back of the...

[GR]6lkiblLfkVk[/GR] We’ve all done. I’ve done it. You walk to the kitchen with your TV’s remote control in hand, get something to drink and return to your couch. Upon trying to change the channel you can’t locate your remote. Odds are the last place you’ll look is your fridge, but...

For runners who want to just monitor their heart rate comes MIO’s new Alpha Heart rate monitor watch, which provides users a seamless and bulk-free way to check their heart rate stats. For $199, the monitor watch uses an electro-optical cell and a pair of light beams to track the volume of...

[GR]pALhY17bNdQ[/GR] The Wahoo Blue SC is the second in a new low-energy Bluetooth 4.0 line of fitness monitoring products, allowing users to compile data from their bikes using a combination of a smartphone app and hardware that attaches to the bike. The first product that uses Bluetooth 4.0 is the...